10^th Asia-PacificBiotech Congress

Biography

Jolanta Prywer, solid state physicist, Institute of Physics, Lodz University of Technology, Łódź, Poland. She received M.Sc., 1989 and Ph.D., 1998 in Solid State Physics from Lodz University of Technology, Łódź, Poland and from University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland, respectively. Since 2011 she is a member of Advisory Board of the journal Crystal Research and Technology – Journal of Experimental and Industrial Crystallography (Wiley). She is a reviewer in many journals, for example in Journal of Crystal Growth, Crystal Growth and Design, Crystal Research and Technology, Water Research, Journal of Materials Research. She was an invited speaker and acted as a member of programme committee in several international conferences worldwide, for example: 2014 – International programme committee for the Collaborative Conference on Crystal Growth (3CG), Phuket, Thailand; 2013 – Programme committee with Profs. Helmut Colfen and Abel Moreno Carcamo for session Biological and Biogenic Crystallization, 17th International Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy (ICCGE-17), Warsaw, Poland; 2013 – Member of the ICBEB Reviewers' team and the Technical Program Committee (TPC) - The 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (iCBEB 2013); Wuhan, China, 2013. She is also chairman of Biocrystallization Division of Polish Society for Crystal Growth (PSCG) and a member of the Board of Łódź Branch of Polish Physical Society (PPS). Her publications are 70 in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

Research Interest

Elementary processes of crystal growth
Equilibrium and growth morphology of crystals, biomineralization
Crystals induced to grow by bacteria
Biogenic crystals.